Planetary health diet

They contain unsaturated rather than saturated fats, and limited amounts of refined grains, highly processed foods and added sugars.

Cornado said that adopting one dietary approach for the whole planet would destroy traditional diets and cultural heritage, and that reducing meat and candy consumption would cause the loss of millions of jobs.

[5] In 2019, Francisco J. Zagmutt and colleagues challenged the planetary diet based on flaws in the methodology used for health estimates.

[11] However, as pointed out by Walter Willett, the three different methods that were used to estimate the number of preventable deaths among adults were published independently of the EAT-Lancet Commission with a detailed methodology.

The differences are in the recommended amounts of fruit, nuts, red meat, seeds, starchy vegetables and whole grains.